A weekly theme of CNN's Reliable Sources is that "democracy is dying in darkness" under Trump. So naturally, host Brian Stelter turned to Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Catherine Rampell to discuss the so-called "Constitutional crisis." Host Brian Stelter opened the segment by declaring that "democracy in the United States is being tested" and Stelter asked Rampell to sum up the past week in a headline. Rampell didn't choose an objective headline. She chose "the frog has been boiled," referring to "this old adage that if you put a frog in a pot of water and you slowly raise the temperature, the frog won't jump out...because they don't get that they're about to be boiled." Trump is killing the American people....slowly. And they're as dumb as a frog.